June 11th 2015

Mystic Falls

(Damon POV)

I was sitting at the table, trying my damndest to remember what my mother had taught me about manners and everything else she taught me because I was actually getting somewhere with her. She'd called me son yesterday if I remember correctly.

"Elena. Good Morning." Lily said, smiling at her.

"No Mom-" I exhaled my frustration before continuing. I wish Stefan were the one doing this! "-say it like this. Good Morning Elena." Elena smiled nervously before sitting down and Bonnie came in, dressed in her pyjamas, sneezing.

"I'm not sick, just hungry and I need a break this week Elena." She looked at her, mouthing something and Elena immdeidately nodded. "Thanks Elena." She got herself a plate to go before leaving the building. I looked after her, confused. What did she tell Elena she couldn't tell me?

"Elena? What did she tell you? Is she annoyed with this little-" I was kicked from under the table and quickly changed my wording -"rendezvous with my mother?"

"No Damon. That's not it at all, in fact Bonnie likes Lily. She needs a personal week."

"Don't try to understand Damon." Lily replied, smiling before beginning to eat. I shook it off. The less females in this house the better. I picked up my own fork, using my manners I could remember, and began to eat myself.

(Klaus POV)

I was watching Katerina talk with Stefan. This was my chance, Rebekah was upstairs getting ready for our trip today. I strolled over to Stefan and, smirking at Katerina, asked Stefan a question I'd been wanting to ask him for a while.

"Hey, mate, I've a question for you." I whispered as Katerina narrowed her eyes at me, oh I knew she could still hear me I just wanted to show her that I didn't care. And also make it seem private.

"What's the question Nik? You never have questions unless it's behaviour, am I right?" He asked Katerina. She smirked at me and I just smiled sweetly at her, raising my brow at her. She dropped her smirk to stalk closer and I immediately turned my smile into the baring of my teeth in a nonverbal threat. If she'd a brain, she'd know what it meant. I could still bite her and the only cure is my blood.

"Is it true that you've never had sex with Katerina Petrova when you were human? Remember that as a new vampire you would have remembered everything and she couldn't recompel it out of your head. So I could still compel you to tell me the truth. You're not the only one with feelings for the slut."

"Oh come on, I don't have a need to lie to my best friend. The answer is… no. I never had sex with her. Damon, I don't know." He seemed surprised. "I've never actually thought about whether or not I had. I suppose you're right. She isn't nor has ever been in love with me."

"It's a trick of the trade. Pretending like you care."

"Oh…"

"Rebekah loves you." I replied, before getting another idea for Stefan. Ideas just kept popping up in my head but first I needed to give Damon 'Mother Raising' advice. After all, if you knew what you were doing, it would be easy. Speaking of Rebekah… "Rebekah love, we need to go. Davina is waiting for us." I took out my phone, ready to give Damon that advice on his mother… since I could handle my own so easily. Which I admittedly learned from my friends Kyle and Carr… boy do I miss them. I shook my head, clearing my thoughts. Reflecting on the past never brings anything but pain.

"What the hell do you want Klaus?" I smirked, I missed when people would greet me so rudely.

"To tell you how to handle a woman like your mother. First tell me your experiences that you have had so far. By the way, Jeremy is doing a fantastic job of behaving. I would tell you if he misbehaved."

"I should ruddy well hope so. You want me to tell you how it's been? And why would you be interested? Better yet, why would you need to hear what I've done?"

"To correct you in your errors. When my mother misbehaves, I simply remind her of her place. Reminding her of how easy it is to kill her. Of course, I can't really poison her. She's not a vampire, she's a witch."

"… Okayieeee. Awkward. I've tried pain, didn't work the first time, or next time. Elena's got me having her out in the open, treating her 'respectfully'. Like she's my mother, which she is. Though I don't really see her that way. She's more of an annoying woman than anything else."

"You know, just let me correct you right there, mate. If you want her to know her place, you have no business respecting her as your mother if that's not what you see her as. You have to teach her who's in charge. So when she does something you don't like, punish her. I'm not going to tell you how, just punish her in what ever way you see fit, like killing her friends. Or chaining her to the house."

"You just described you, and you contradicted yourself. I want her to learn to be our mother again. Or rather Stefan does…. Why am I taking advice from you?"

"Then compel her! It's that easy!"

"She's a vampire, Klaus! I know you might have forgotten that normal vampires can't compel each other, but we can't!"

"Oh. Right. Then let me compel her. Meanwhile, you can just coach her in the appropriate behaviour of a mother."

"Which is?"

"How should I know? I'm a Father. My advice is that when she gives you hugs, kisses, and sweet nothings, that you reward her behaviour. With sweets, candies, boyfriends to have sex with, and the like."

"Klaus?"

"What?"

"I am not going to give her a boyfriend. Has it possibly crossed your mind that if she likes a boy, then that man will become my new father?" No not really…

"Is there a problem with that? As long as it's human or a vampire younger than yourself, when she misbehaves you can kill him."

"Yeah, and she will be even more upset with me. What would Elijah say if he heard you talking about parents this way?"

"Something among the lines of 'Oh, Klaus. You and your weird ways.' We're not talking about me, we are talking about you."

"Niky! We're at Davina's!" I smiled.

"Bye Damon. Use my advice on encouragement wisely." I hung up and got out of the car, walked up to the front door, and banged on it.

"NIK!" Beky scolded. "You should knock like this." She took her fist and used her fingers to lightly knock on the door. I frowned at her.

"But that's less fun." I beamed at her, before the door opened. There stood Davina.

"What are you doing here?"

"Hello, I was wondering if you might…" What was it I needed again? Oh yes! "…contact my mother." I smiled. "I seem to have forgotten that Elijah and Katerina are getting married this summer and she has absconded with her… husband/lover and her sister and her sister's daughter who you know as Freya." She giggled slightly. I smiled wider.

"Why not just use a cell phone? And don't say that I'm your cell phone." I rolled my eyes at her. As if I would.

"Because as it so happens they did not bother to take one."

"What's a husband/lover?"

"Mikael." Her eyes widened before she smiled, refusing to believe my answer, wanting to move on.

"Yes I could, do you have anything to contact her with?" I pulled out my father's wedding ring from my mother.

"Yes. I nicked it from my Father yesterday. This belonged to her. And if not that, here is her hair brush."

"Come in. I'll give you a piece of paper and pen to write with and we can send her the note." I grabbed what she handed me and began to write. Using my best cursive hand writing, since this was her first and only invitation to Elijah and Katerina's wedding.

When I was done, it looked like this: Dearest Mother, You are required to come back to New Orleans before the Fifteenth of July this year, for the wedding of your eldest son Elijah Mikaelson and his whore Katerina Petrova. Katerina Petrova is a whore, NOT Elijah Mikaelson. Hate-Love your bastard son, Niklaus Mikaelson-Akatai P.S. Bring Mikael, Dahlia, and Freya with you, if you don't mind.

"What do you think Rebekah?"

"Dearest Mother, You are required to come back to New Orleans before the Fifteenth of July this year, for the wedding of your eldest son Elijah Mikaelson and his whore Katerina Petrova. Katerina Petrova is a whore, NOT Elijah Mikaelson. Hate-Love your bastard son, Niklaus Mikaelson-Akatai P.S. Bring Mikael, Dahlia, and Freya with you, if you don't mind." She read aloud. Then she glared at me. "Really Nik? You put the word whore in the letter? Twice?"

"How else shall she know it is I? Send it Davina. Besides, Rebekah, it's true." Then again, did she not tell me that she never had sex with Damon and Stefan? What about Mason? Tyler- ! Tyler?! She better not have!

She took the ring and the paper before beginning to chant… the same chant Genevieve did for Rebekah and Marcel. I looked at Beky. I still couldn't believe it, but she's paid for her sins against me so I need not bring it up again. I looked at Davina's hand in alarm as it set ablaze. She smiled when it had disappeared from her hand.

"That's it? It just burns in your hand? How… anticlimatic. I was believing we'd have to stay away for a while. Marcel's watching the kids. Davina, why don't we take you out for the day to have fun? We've nothing better to do. What do you say?"

"I have to clean up the house, and cook dinner."

"Great, it's a deal then. I cleaned up your mess. This 'house' is small. I should really move you and your boyfriend out of an apartment and into a house. Marcel lives with me, but you obviously want your own house. What if I… pay you for what you've done for me and then you can have monthly payments on your house, how does that sound?"

"Klaus, I want to do it fairly. The human way." I banged my fist on the table.

"The human way is unbearably boring, Davina. Do it my way! I assure you, you would get your every heart's desire. No matter what the cost." She shook her head.

"It would be unfair to Tim, he'd think I didn't believe he could provide for me."

"I'll compel him to accept it and still believe that you believe in him! That's what you people pick your lovers out for anyway."

"No, it's because we love each other. Don't you love Caroline, Hayley, and Genevieve?"

"Yes! I give them everything they desire as well."

"Have you never been human?"

"Yes, I have been human. I still got everything I wanted." I stood, grabbed Davina, and led her to the car, I would not debate over this the whole day. "Fine, I'll let you slide for a bit longer." I growled at her. Klaus Mikaelson-Akatai always wins.

(Damon POV)

"That was wonderful Mrs. Salvatore." Elena smiled, scooping her spoon into her frozen yoghurt and taking a bite. Bonnie nodded.

"I don't know where you've found that place. It's rather far in the city. I've never been there, and I've lived her I think all my life." Bonnie replied, finishing up hers.

Today had been… not totally awful. I was amazed that Lily could still pull something like that off. I'd been using Klaus' advice about rewarding her motherly behaviour by giving her my own 'Lily's son Damon' love back to her. I could still remember how I loved her, I just didn't lover her anymore. Which was very hard to deal with when I had to shape her back up until she did it on her own.

"Damon I was very happy to see you love her. So is it getting better? Since your treating her like a mother now?" Elena asked, hopefully. She was pointedly asking questions so I'd know where she was going with this. I smiled.

"I won't know until Stefan comes home." Honestly. It's not really a family without Stefan. One thing I was happy about was that Elena and Lily seemed to be getting on just fine. So I suppose I had my Mother's approval. Start calling her 'Mom'. Maybe it will help.

Is anyone still reading this story? Maybe? I won't take so long to update anymore. I just needed a break so I could get past my writer's block. Thank you for those who have waited patiently for the next update.